After building the Coen Brothers' A Serious Man (in my capacity as manager and projectionist of our local arthouse Midtown Cinema) I sat down and watched the brothers' fourteenth film all by my lonesome. At first glance I wasn't sure what to make of this strangely curious little film. Yes, the Coens' are usually purveyors of strangely curious little films, but this one was strangely curious in a completely different way. Don't ask how, just go with me here. Anyway, after contemplating it for a while, by the time I went to bed that night (about 2 hours after finishing the film) I was won over by this strangely curious little film. Perhaps not their best (Fargo and No Country For Old Men hold those spots) but pretty darn close. In that Coenesque second tier realm of Miller's Crossing, Raising Arizona, Blood Simple, Barton Fink and The Big Lebowski. A strangely curious little film indeed.
Read my review of A Serious Man at The Cinematheque.
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